Posted on August 31, 2007 by Albin Paul
A new cancer-drug distribution system that aims to cut drug costs for community oncology practices around the country is being launched by OneOncology Inc., of Orlando, Fla., which started its Web-based system
In a challenge to the status quo of the drug-distribution business, OneOncology plans to conduct periodic online “reverse auctions.” Wholesale-drug distributors would bid on [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2007 by Albin Paul
IDENTIGENE Becomes First DNA Testing Lab to Promise Fast Results with a Money-Back Guarantee . The company now Now Offers the Industry’s First Money-Back Guarantee, together with a Three-Day Turnaround on Results
the website says IDENTIGENE is the [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2007 by Albin Paul
Scientists from the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a pattern of gene expression shared by a small group of patients who beat the odds and remained [...]
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Posted on August 28, 2007 by Albin Paul
Information technology company Microsoft will give technical assistance to enhance access to online research for scientists, thats when most of the publishers of scientific journals are fighting against Open Access journals. Take a look at the blog on the subject by Greg at nodalpoint
Announced at a meeting in Washington in July Representatives from the World [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2007 by Albin Paul
Well every one is writing about google and its foray into biology and life science, so what is going on with Other companies .
Microsoft started its BioIT alliance During 2006 and guss what Bill Gates said during the launch “Advances in our understanding of the human genome promise to revolutionize medicine and open the [...]
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Posted on August 23, 2007 by Albin Paul
THe Haifa Lab of IBM provides the Technlogy for Clinicalgenomics and leads the research in lifesciences fieds.
The Clinica, Genomics division plans to provide technology to integrate clinial genomics data and HL7 and other complaince protocls followed in clinical research and clinia, trial and integrate them to provide better and focused clinical trials
Clinical genomics for biopharmaceuticals [...]
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Posted on August 22, 2007 by Albin Paul
Citrix Acquire XenSource to Enter Server and Desktop Virtualization Markets. So whats it has got to do with genetics and bioinformatics , XenSource is the leading provider of enterprise-class virtual infrastructure solutions Originally created by the founders of XenSource at University of Cambridge, the Xen virtualization “engine” is now developed collaboratively by an [...]
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Posted on August 20, 2007 by Albin Paul
Ok I did laugh a bit at that story, but interesting ha. according to a study outlined in a report in the Aug. 21 issue of the journal Current Biology Females do have a preference for pinkish colors that males don’t.
So whats the evolutionary reason , well the same old story females used to collect [...]
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Posted on August 20, 2007 by Albin Paul
interestingly I found this image from an earlier post of Bertalan at scienceroll
The story according to the blog Google Blogoscoped, Google’s nascent Google Health product, codenamed “Weaver”, will offer consumers the opportunity to create a central repository for their health records, including medications, history, test results and allergies. The blog has a number of [...]
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Posted on August 20, 2007 by Albin Paul
IT been a long time since my last post, So I thought of catching up with other blogger before going to do anything myslef. So here is what got my attention from Alla Katsnelson blog on the scientist magazine that USFDA approved updated labeling for the widely used blood-thinning drug, Coumadin, to [...]
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Posted on August 1, 2007 by Albin Paul
28 patient organizations joined BIO in asking Congress to restore eligibility to venture-backed biotech companies to “help innovative research move forward in order to foster breakthrough cures.”
Under the SBA’s new rules, companies with more than 50 percent of their backing from venture capital can’t compete for grants
Biotech industry calls on Congress to change grant program
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